Which is more easily fixable when communicating with intelligent people, with dumb people their current position usually predetermines what they're going to go with because they won't comprehend the alternatives.
You know I'm just expressing my personal experience as someone that loves argument and has spent a huge portion of their life just arguing with as many people as they can. I'm easily in the 10,000 if not hundred thousands of people that I have argued with. Maybe one day I'll get everybody 😂😂😂
What I'm saying is, from my experience, talking to dumb people isn't worse, you just dumb down what you're saying. Not to mention dumb people fall into argumentative traps way easier. smart people see em coming and try to avoid them, which Just causes you to have to do extra work
Walk right into the argument traps, But also, they're usually a lot less inclined to try to argue against the trap. They might say that they don't feel like that's right, but they will see where you're coming from because you walked them there
Like @bayareadata.press and @chriswarcraft.bsky.social who keep disparaging the proven 100% innocent Matt Araiza and then hiding behind the block button like cowards whenever someone DARES disagree with them?
Whoever said it first it doesn't matter. The truth behind it is self revealing. The answer to the riddle. for anyone who has tried to argue evidence to one who sees through an emotional eye. Absence of evidence while feeding an instinctual pretentious greed will gain minion of those who refuse fact
“Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway.” - Shannon L. Adler
We knew the Americans could be arrogant but what were seeing now with trump and maga is new.
I'm really starting to think at least half the country are stupid. Not normal stupid but completely lost their mind and morals kind of stupid. There is really no other explanation for what were seeing.
Congress & the Senate should adopt secret ballots to protect lawmakers from oligarch pressure and retaliation, ensuring votes reflect the country's best interests, not donors'. Secret ballots have historical precedent & would let them vote without fearing sponsors backing rival's next election.
That is EXACTLY why in 1940 "all persons convicted of treason" was removed from title 18 chapter 115 section 2381. This allows for removal without having to convince the idiots you are right.
But the pain of circumstances can be very convincing. Hunger, death and disease are likely policy related outcomes. Trump has no clue what he’s doing, playing God King. Grifters pick government bones. We are weeks away from economic disaster if he’s not stopped. Fox can’t carry that water.
So conspiracy theorists say.
So perhaps we should formally define evidence before feeling good about thinking everyone an idiot if they don’t agree with our arguments.
(I should put “playing Devil’s advocate for fun” in my bio 😂)
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Apparently.
Don't people have less defenses against their bad ideas. Smart people can make up so many good sounding reasons and delude themselves so thoroughly
They won't grasp the full counterargument to their position so they'll default to doubling down.
Whereas with more intelligent people the problem is usually approaching the subject from the wrong direction and arguing based on other points they
Which is more easily fixable when communicating with intelligent people, with dumb people their current position usually predetermines what they're going to go with because they won't comprehend the alternatives.
Dumb people
What's your experience been?
-Mark Twain
Nothing to do with idiocy.
"It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled."
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https://www.hoover.org/research/obamas-unconstitutional-immigration-order
“Why is @BarackObama
constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?”
—Donald Trump 2012 (before felony fraud conviction)
I've fact checked this quote.
Also this quote from an earlier time by Jonathon Swift.
Now, the statement is still TRUE!
Nothing makes a moron happier than your frustration at their unjustified abstinence.
Don't waste your breath; eventually we will just have to kill them all, again.
I'm really starting to think at least half the country are stupid. Not normal stupid but completely lost their mind and morals kind of stupid. There is really no other explanation for what were seeing.
I guess they have fact checkers afterall.
I break it down below.
-Anonymous
Are we both idiots, or just me?
They don't have the ability to make decisions based on facts.
So perhaps we should formally define evidence before feeling good about thinking everyone an idiot if they don’t agree with our arguments.
(I should put “playing Devil’s advocate for fun” in my bio 😂)